The Vatican Princess Author: C. W. Gortner Ballantine Books, 2017 ISBN: 978-0-3455-3399-9 $17.00 Innocent or Femme Fatale?: The Plight of Lucrezia Borgia in C. W. Gortner’s The Vatican Princess Review by Rita Bourke The year...
The Misfit's Manifesto by Lidia Yuknavitch The Misfit’s Manifesto Author: Lidia Yuknavitch Simon & Schuster, 2017 ISBN 978-2-5011-2006-0 $16.99 Which book changed your life? Sean Prentiss, a professor at VCFA and author of Finding Abbey, asked us, as...
Issue 14 / Summer 2018 They always stood on the train. The express was crowded during the morning rush. But even when the cars were half full, these passengers continued to stand, pressed into the dark corners of the train. They never talked or listened to...
Part 3: Pursuit By Andrew Gifford Londinium is burning… I have a soft spot for historical fiction set in the Roman era. When I read for pleasure, I’m as eclectic as SFWP’s catalog. Sometimes, I’m reading pulpy b-grade sci-fi; next, I’m reading dense...
Issue 14 / Summer 2018 The fish-laced ocean air is replaced by stale recycled musk as I mount the Greyhound steps and scan for an empty seat. Out the back window I catch a glint of sun on sea and the masts of sailboats in the harbor. There are no empty doubles....
Issue 14 / Summer 2018 My eyes were still adjusting to life in LA, to the void of stars in a navy sky, to the helicopter and airplane lights hovering above, to the brown haze always on the horizon, when the phone calls started. The phone calls usually came late...
